Episode 47: Teamwork makes the dreamwork: AiArthritis WINS Best Team Performance 2020

This week join your patient host Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, CEO of International Foundation for AiArthritis, for a special AiArthritis Watch Party for the announcement of the winners of the 9th Annual WEGO Health Awards. The WEGO Health Awards were created to embody the mission of WEGO Health: to empower patient leaders by recognizing their contributions to the field of healthcare. There are 16 categories of awards that this year included over 13000 nominees and 96 finalists.  AiArthritis is thrilled to announce that we won the 2020 WEGO Health Award for Best Team Performance! We are so grateful to all of our volunteers, staff, and supporters for making this award and all of our work possible. Our mission at AiArthritis is to center the patient voice in ongoing conversations about the issues facing the AiArthritis community and to bring as many voices to the table for those conversations as we can. Whether you have been with us from the beginning or are listening to AiArthritis Voices 360 for the first time, we want you to be a member of our family because only together can we move mountains and shape the future of AiArthritis patient health.    Patient Voices and All Other Stakeholders - Join our AiArthritis Voices Program and Connect to Opportunities to Have Your Voice Counted!   If you are a patient, a parent of a juvenile patient, or any other stakeholder (doctor, nurse, researcher, industry representative, or other health services person) - are you ready to join the conversation? It's your turn to pull up a seat. Join our new AiArthritis Voices program, where people living with AiArthritis diseases and other stakeholders who we need 'at the table' to solve problems that impact education, advocacy, and research sign up to have a voice in our initiatives. By signing up, you’ll get notified of opportunities to be more involved with this show - including submitting post-episode comments and gaining insider information on future show topics. Patients and all other stakeholders are encouraged to join so we can match you with opportunities to pull up a seat and TOGETHER - as equals - solve the problems of today and tomorrow. JOIN TODAY!   AiArthritis Voices 360 is produced by the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Arthritis. Visit us on the web at www.aiarthritis.org/talkshow. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook (@ifAiArthritis) or email us ([email protected]).   Show Notes: Episode 47 – “Teamwork makes the dreamwork: AiArthritis WINS Best Team Performance 2020”   00:53 - Tiffany welcomes listeners 01:05 - AiArthritis was co-founded by Tiffany in 2011, after she started an awareness campaign to let people know that Arthritis is not just a disease for elderly people. 02:59 - We are a family, and all of our volunteers are members of that family. 04:03 - AiArthritis was 1 of 13000 nominations and 96 finalists for the WEGO Health Awards this year. 05:40 - Hear the reaction when our volunteers found out we won the WEGO Health Award for Best Team Performance. 14:51 - Tune in at AiArthritis.org/talkshow to listen to any of our previous episodes or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts